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poetrypea.com presents the final part of a three part series on allusive variation in poetry. This time Honzetsu, in which a piece of prose writing is the foundation piece. Lots of contemporary poetic examples and some long form poetry in this edition too. Themes of sadness, death, decay, age and bravado, as well as the wistfulness of children’s stories.

In today’s podcast I want to finish talking to you about allusion in poetry by discussing honzetsu. Depending on what you chose to write for the first topic of 2024, you might need to use this technique for your submission.

At the end of the show notes I’ll give you the foundation pieces you need to use for this topic. The team and I really hate rejecting work, it hurts us too, so please listen to find out exactly what we’ll be looking for.

Before I discuss honzetsu there are a couple of things to tell you. Remember last time I said I would also talk about mitake today, well I’ve thought the better of it. There will be enough to think about without adding that. It might be better to work with it when we next look at Ekphrastic poetry. If you’re not sure what Ekphrastic poetry is, we have covered it at Pea Towers, go and have a listen to episode 24 in the second series.

I think I also said that I would be reading the poetry Poetry Pea has nominated for the Touchstone awards this month, but I forgot that Christmas day lands on a Monday and to be honest, I shall be hard at work in the kitchen as number one dogsbody to my son, who is the Christmas chef in our family. So I’ll read these magnificent pieces in the first podcast of 2024.

So the next podcast, the one with lots of your stupendously good haiku and senryu on the topic of Zoka, will be the last podcast of 2023…  Thank you for being with me throughout the year and supporting the podcast. This was an amazing year, one in which we motored along, and confirmed our place as the number one English language short form podcast, due in no small measure to all the help you give me, thank you.

May I ask a favour of you? Please could you do three things:

1. Recommend our podcast to a poet friend
2. Leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. I’ll add some instructions for the major platforms, apple, Spotify, amazon and YouTube, in the show notes. Other platforms are available and if you use them you should find us there.
3. Use your social media platforms, Facebook, Instagram, X to let poets know we exist. I could really do with some help from you in the social media area.

How to do it:

Apple Podcasts

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Amazon /Audible

Thank you.

Foundation Pieces for the Honkadori / Honzetsu topic January 2024

click here to download  Foundation Pieces for Honkadori

Short Essay on Honzetsu

click here to go to the essay.

Download here

Links:

this version is a bit pricey. Perhaps there is somewhere other than Amazon to find it.

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